https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
Linux Device Drivers, Third EditionThis is the web site for the Third Edition of Linux Device Drivers, by Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman. For the moment, only the finished PDF files are available; we do intend to make an HTML version and the DocBook source available as well.
This book is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. That means that you are free to download and redistribute it. The development of the book was made possible, however, by those who purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere.
LDD3 is current as of the 2.6.10 kernel. See the LWN 2.6 API changes page for information on subsequent changes.
LDD3 chapter files
- Title page PDF
- Copyright and credits PDF
- Table of Contents PDF
- Preface PDF
- Chapter 1: An Introduction to Device Drivers PDF
- Chapter 2: Building and Running Modules PDF
- Chapter 3: Char Drivers PDF
- Chapter 4: Debugging Techniques PDF
- Chapter 5: Concurrency and Race Conditions PDF
- Chapter 6: Advanced Char Driver Operations PDF
- Chapter 7: Time, Delays, and Deferred Work PDF
- Chapter 8: Allocating Memory PDF
- Chapter 9: Communicating with Hardware PDF
- Chapter 10: Interrupt Handling PDF
- Chapter 11: Data Types in the Kernel PDF
- Chapter 12: PCI Drivers PDF
- Chapter 13: USB Drivers PDF
- Chapter 14: The Linux Device Model PDF
- Chapter 15: Memory Mapping and DMA PDF
- Chapter 16: Block Drivers PDF
- Chapter 17: Network Drivers PDF
- Chapter 18: TTY Drivers PDF
- Index PDF
- Downloads, Also available:
A tarball of the LDD3 PDF files (11MB).
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